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FROM AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION
MSNBC host Krystal Ball was in close communication with leaders of an online boycott aimed at advertisers on Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show, e-mails between the boycott leaders indicate.

Attempting to discover the identity of an infiltrator in their group, the #StopRush leader @Shoq (aka “Shoq Value,” who is believed to be an activist named Matt Edelstein) indicated that Ball had warned another member about the suspected “right wing disrupter.” The other member had “already inquired with Krystal last week, and Krystal said ‘we don’t like or trust this guy,’” Shoq wrote in an e-mail published Thursday by Brooks Bayne at The Trenches.

Bayne said the e-mail was obtained from a Google group, “Social Action Steering,” which was apparently deleted after The Trenches published the correspondence between the #StopRush leaders. The group was attempting to discover the true identity and political leanings of a Texas man, known as “Randy Hahn,” who had joined their anti-Limbaugh effort and caused dissension among the boycotters.

Ball, a Democrat who ran for Congress in Virginia two years ago, is a paid MSNBC contributor who was recently announced as one of four co-hosts of a new daily program, The Cycle, on the left-leaning cable news network. It is unclear whether MSNBC executives were aware of the extent of Ball’s involvement in #StopRush, which used the social network in a campaign to drive Limbaugh off the airwaves by threatening boycotts against advertisers on his conservative talk show, the nation’s most popular syndicated radio program.

UPDATE: In attempting to discover the identity of “Randy Hahn,” the #StopRush boycott leader Shoq sought the services of Democrat consultant Neal Rauhauser, the e-mails obtained by The Trenches show. Rauhauser provided the group with extensive documentation about a Houston man named Jason, whose surname was redacted in the version posted by Bayne. Rauhauser then mused about exposing the man to harassment by sending his personal information to online groups.

“I have been sorely tempted to point him out to various actors — a guy like this, he could really produce some high quality entertainment for 4chan, Something Awful, Encyclopedia Dramatica, etc.,” Rauhauser wrote in his e-mail reply to Shoq.

Rauhauser, who was banned from the progressive blog Daily Kos last year, became notorious in 2010 when he was accused of organizing “a group of E-Thugs meant to harass, threaten, provoke, disparage, intimidate, verbally assault, berate & employ hate-speech against those not in agreement with his brand of politics,” as conservative blogger Patrick Read said at the time.

If Shoq’s claims are accurate, the latest reports may suggest multiple connections between the Limbaugh boycott, MSNBC, the Obama campaign, Democrat operatives like Rauhauser, and tax-exempt groups like Media Matters and Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution.

Comments

This is stupid. The argument: “Since some impressions can be faulty, ‘chances are’ an arbitrarily selected one is faulty.” If that were true there would be no value of forming ‘impressions’ from data since it would be no better than making decisions at random.

Who Runs This Site?
The site and most of the people curating the data were organized by @Shoq, a progressive advocate on Twitter and Facebook who takes an interest in media accountability (on Left, Right, and Center) and projects that might breed organized action against the growing radical conservative movement in America. The site was launched after several discussions between @shoq and @krystalBall1 shortly after she had launched a petition site called Boycottrush.org within less than a day of Rush’s vicious assault on Sandra Fluke after she had testified to a Congressional committee about contraception

Look, I’m 100% behind exposing all the sordid connections and the dirty players in every branch of this poisonous tree, but I do have a soft spot for strippers with a heart of gold. So let’s give Krystal Ball the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe she wasn’t hired for her far-left views or her cathouse morality. Maybe it was because she had other qualifications.

Maybe she is 1/32 Cherokee, or once claimed to be.

victoryman June 22nd, 2012 @ 3:28 pm

I remember Krystal Ball from the “Old days.” Used to have an act at the Yellow Lizard Lounge – “Krystal Ball and her pet snake.” Used to stuff dollar bills in her G-string….and out popped 50 cents in change. Those were the days. Now she’s a democratic media pimpette….let’s see….it not too far to travel from 50 cent stripper to spouting democratic talking points on TV. Wonder whatever happened to the snake?

…But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
She said, hey baby, take a walk on the wild side
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go, doo doo doo, doo …

[…] You can see what I put up a while ago on concerning Obama’s campaign and their ties to on line intimidation and thuggery here. Along those same lines is this story, also from Stacy McCain. It seems a certain MSNBS host, has ties to the #stopRush Boycott too […]

Do yourself and all of USA favor and file a complaint with the California state bar against Imani Gandy aka @angryblacklady. She claims she is Matthew R. “Shoq” Edelstein’s attorney and was aware of the illegal recordings and has threatened to sue people on his behalf.